All words and music on the album are by Daniel Lentz, except for the title track, 'On the Leopard Altar,' which has words by Daniel Lentz and Jessica Lowe, and 'Requiem,' which uses text from the Latin Mass.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Daniel Lentz, the composer, describes his music as inhabiting a 'state of becoming,' where musical and textual fragments are layered to create new forms.
Compositional Technique
The piece 'Wolf Is Dead…' uses a phonetic link between lines of text, creating a word chain (e.g., 'you died' overlapping 'you did'), which also forms the basis for its musical structure.
Compositional Technique
The album features 'unusual additive and subtractive structures,' including a process where phonemes and notes are removed until a finished line emerges, as heard in the piece 'Is It Love?'.
Recording & Production
This recording was originally released on vinyl by ICON Records in 1984.
Instruments
The piece 'Lascaux' is scored for wineglasses, with sixteen rubbed and nine struck, and no effects are added to their natural sounds other than reverb.
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